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Myriota has appointed Barbara
Swanson as its first CRO to grow its global customer
base.

Swanson will head up the sales and
marketing teams and be responsible for building and
executing the strategy to drive uptake in key
international markets. The position will be integral to
building Myriota's global partner network and making
data accessible to all through low-cost, low-power,
secure direct-to-orbit connectivity for IoT.

Swanson, a highly experienced
global sales executive, specialised in SaaS technology
for the past 20 years. Most recently, she held the role
of Vice President, Sales & Managing Director,
Asia-Pacific for Germany-based TeamViewer, which is a
leader in IoT and produces remote control, monitoring
and collaboration software. Swanson is now returning to
her career after taking two-years of parental leave with
her three young children.

As a dual Australian-US citizen,
Swanson has strong international experience and a track
record of establishing and executing global sales
strategies. She was transferred to Sydney, Australia by
West Corporation in 2002 to lead the Asia-Pacific sales
organisation. There, her team grew revenues in the
region from 20+ million to 150+ million in 5 years.
Prior to the move to Australia, Swanson has held various
sales and marketing roles in the US with an emphasis on
launching and expanding new markets.

Alex Grant, Myriota co-founder and
CEO, commented: "Barbara Swanson brings vital skills and
experience to Myriota, at a time when we are looking to
rapidly expand both regionally and internationally.

“As CRO, Barbara will be
instrumental in architecting our global business
development strategy while expanding and leading our
sales and marketing teams. With the rapid expansion of
IoT there is huge international interest and demand for
low-cost satellite connectivity, and with Barbara
Swanson on board, we are ideally placed to take
advantage of this emerging market."

Myriota, which last year announced
a first-of-its-kind partnership with Optus to bolster
IoT coverage for regional Australia, is making data
accessible across global industries including
agriculture, logistics, transport and environmental
management. It also recently announced a partnership
with global manufacturer Motherson to produce millions
of the Myriota Module; a cutting edge, low powered
device that securely transfers data to the Myriota
Network of satellites from anywhere on the planet.

Barbara Swanson, Chief Revenue
Officer, Myriota, said: "Joining Myriota is a new and
exciting opportunity for me to bring my skills to help
grow one of the most exciting scale-ups in the
international space sector. I’m looking forward to
working with the extremely talented and dedicated team
at Myriota to take the company global. Space
communications is a very dynamic and fast-growing
industry to be in as we enter the Fourth Industrial
Age."